I’m a sentimental person, no doubt about it! So every day I set a reminder on my phone to look back at the pictures I took in the past on that day. Nerdy? Maybe! But it’s my favorite way to wake up in the morning!
This year has been especially fun because I’m getting to look back at all my pictures from Uganda!
This was the only picture from today!
It brought back so many memories. I’ll never forget the moment I saw this. I had only been in Uganda a few days and struggling with a couple different things. I had grabbed a bar of chocolate from the market (because imported chocolate from South Africa, is SO good!) and sat in the chapel to get a good wifi connection. Once connected this was the first image to come up!
Trade your worries for worship and watch God make the mountain of anxiety bow down to him!
& from that moment on, I decided to shift my perspective, from worry to worship. & friends, let me tell you. Changing my perception changed everything.
Which brings me where I am today, a year later!
The things that happen when we trade our worries for worship are incredible!
Honestly, the picture reminds me a lot of my first thoughts about going on the World Race. I was going to commit or not. I felt called, but committing to spending 11-months on the mission field out of a backpack isn’t an easy decision. Yet, the thing I struggled with the most was the money. I’ll never forget finally confiding that fear with a friend. “How am I to raise that much money?” I said with a shaky voice. She looked at me full of faith and with great confidence said “Oh, I didn’t realize your God was so small!”
The statement above cut like a knife. It hurt me – cause it was true. In saying that raising the money would be impossible or too hard, I was essentially saying my God, was really small. Wow! I’m grateful for friends with great perspectives who challenge me and push me deeper into my faith and the love of God!
I’d say that the God who spoke everything into motion, who carefully knit us all together in our mother’s wombs, who knows the starts by names, who parted the seas, died on the cross and rose again three days later. Who ascended back into heaven and is forever seated at the right hand of God, is far more able to provide money to send a college student to share the Gospel, His Gospel, with the very people He loves and He created! #PreachingToMyself
It’s been neat to watch some of the fears I’ve had concerning the World Race, to fall short and bow down at the feet of Jesus. While just a few months in, I’m already blown away at how the Lord has shown Himself to be faithful and reminded me that He is bigger than me and my fears.
On December 11th, I asked if 11 people would be willing to donate $11 or more to support me on the world race. And today, on January 11th, I’m asking the same, if people would be willing to donate $11 or more to my World Race and commit to praying for me in the days, weeks, and months to come! If that is something that you’d be interested in feel free to send me a message or simply click the orange button at the top of the page that says ‘donate’!
“Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!”Psalm 150:6
Much love & many blessings, Lauren
